Y: The Last Man Has a Director, Gets One Step Closer to the Postapocalypse

A movie adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan‘s Y: The Last Man has been simmering for years, but unlike a lot of other more-than-half-a-decade long stints in pre-production purgatory, it’s one where we actually get interested instead of exhausted when we hear that the studio is still pushing people at the project. This is because while Y: The Last Man is the story of the last man on earth after a mysterious and instantaneous plague wipes out every male mammal on the planet except for him and his helper monkey in training, that necessarily means that it’ll be a movie with an enormous cast of female characters of all sorts.

Almost a year ago, New Line found a new set of screenwriters to take on the task of condensing the sixty issues of the comic into one movie, and the studio has just announced that they’ve chosen a director. It’s an unexpected pick, but one that I’m interested in seeing play out.

New Line has tapped Dan Trachtenberg, a director without a lot of credits to his name, and of those credits, the majority of them are commercials for companies like Lexus, Nike, and Coca-Cola. But there’s one more credit that’s worth talking about, and that’s Portal: No Escape.

I don’t feel like any of this give me insight into how Trachtenberg’s Y will go, but it doesn’t give me anything to complain about either. Now let’s just get past the pre-production stage and get this thing moving!